FUEL FILTER, Worker checks a stainless steel filter, designed and engineered by Aircraft Porous Media, Inc., a subsidiary of Pall Corp., for the B-70 bomber. The unit will strain hundreds of gallons of fuel per minute for the supersonic bomber's six engines. Made of more than 200 miles of fine stainless steel wire, the filter will remove particles greater than 74 microns from the fuel
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ALUMINUM. An automatic flame-soldering device joins curved tubes to aluminum coils of an air conditioning unit at the research laboratories of Selas Corp. of America. Selas has developed a technique for joining aluminum tube on a production basis. Till now aluminum tube has only found limited use in multi-row condenser coils because of joining difficulties. Alcoa developed the flux and solder used in the process
DISEASE FREE. Calves from U.S. Department of Agriculture's disease-free herd at Beltsville, Md., are put aboard a railway car for shipment to USDA's new National Animal Disease Laboratory at Ames, Iowa. Some 117 breeding cattle, from a herd kept free of disease for more than 20 years, were shipped to Ames for breeding disease-free animals for research
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TITLE INDEX. R. A. Kennedy, library systems supervisor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, watches a high-speed printer produce a list of scientific documents from information given it by a computer. The computer scans titles (on punched cards) of scientific documents, indexes them according to key words in the titles, and feeds the information to the printer JUNE
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